Steam for Linux

Issue Report: "Activate a product on Steam" wizard attempts to install Windows games

I just added Hitman: Absolution to my Steam account with the Linux client. After the process was done, Steam opened the "install game" dialog even though this game isn't available on Linux. Maybe that shouldn't happen.

I have this problem, too. I just attempted to activate games from the Humble THQ Bundle (great deal, BTW!) on Steam. It attempted to install the games, and since they weren't listed in my Library, I couldn't cancel the installation; I could only pause it. When I tried to exit Steam to stop the downloads, it refused to quit, and I had to try a number of killall commands to make it exit. "killall MainThrd" did the job.

Note: after several restarts, Steam is still trying to install those Windows games (spefically, Company of Heroes and CoH: Opposing Fronts). I'm now running a "grep" on the entire Steam folder to see if i can find an editable file that's telling it to download them. Fingers crossed...

So, close Steam and open config.vdf and look for one of the above two lines. Just above each line, you'll find a 4-digit (I think it's always 4-digit) number for the app, followed by a "{", the line from grep (containing "installdir"), and some other stuff. You need to delete the app number's line, and any lines before the next app number. The final line you delete should end int "}". Do this for both games (i.e. 2 stanzas). In my case, each stanza had 5 lines, not counting text wraparound. The next time I opened Steam on Linux, it didn't try to download the Windows-only games.

There is other way. Open your Library, select "ALL GAMES", open context menu on your game (right mouse click) and select "delete local content". This will stop the downloading and clean up disk, but doesn't make request for "gui fix" any less valid.You still have to manually clean up some garbage in [...]/Steam/SteamApps/common.